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meta

[met-uh] / ˈmɛt ə /
ADJECTIVE
self-referential
Synonyms
STRONGEST
self-referential
STRONG
high-level referential self-reflexive
WEAK
Antonyms


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Bill Pay itself was extremely meta and self-aware, a post-postmodern pageant that would have given David Foster Wallace an aneurysm.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

“The meta problem is, hey, models are going outside the bounds of what they should be doing, and doing actual cyberattacks, which I would think is in the public interest to know.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“It’s kind of meta, isn’t it?” she says with a laugh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Or, at least that’s how I’d pitch a meta horror-thriller about watching Netflix’s abysmal new horror-thriller, “The Whisper Man,” a film so painfully, obviously bad that even talking about how terrible it is seems redundant.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The whole thing is too meta for real me.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

It is now and then stated that the metae between strips have been plowed up.

From The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction by Harriett Bradley


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